Thurmond was railfan headquarters in WV. The town’s main street was the railroad. This location offered mainline freights and several mine runs to MT Hope and Fayetteville. The engine house was ... (more)
You hope to see headlights through the trees, as the waterfall drowns out the locomotive here, until it's broadside, passing high overhead in full dynamics holding back coal loads in this 20mm vie... (more)
Westbound tonnage passing the result of (some) of our tax dollars, the beautifully restored Thurmond Station, in the New River Gorge National Park at 06:46.
Restored Thurmond Station hosts a westbound train of molten sulphur empties, powered by 5245 running solo at 01:35 in the New River Gorge.
The power for the R.J. Corman unit train has just run around its train and will now couple onto the east end at Rush Run siding.
Three engines and a caboose are heading west through Thurmond, West Virginia.
CSXT 320 leads a westbound thru Downtown Thurmond, WV on the former C&O
During the last days of West Virginia Southern's operations WVS 1442 sets silent at South Side Junction, WVC operations ended July 7 2005, RJ Corman took over operations and brought in a pair of G... (more)
The Special 'New River train' thunders past the very small, and quiet town of Thurmond West Virginia.
1804 waits for its next assignment at South Side Junction, Across the river from the CSX Main
Westbound empty coal train coming thru Thurmond,WV
Eastbound Cardinal running a few minutes early passes by Thurmond
The Loup Creek shifter is pulling some loaded hoppers past the Thurmond Post Office in October of 1980. Standing in this spot today you will not see any water tanks and the U.S. Postal Service pu... (more)